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...woman forces her husband to eat the corpse, which is body of her lover, whom he killed. Then she shoots him, saying scornfully "cannibal...
LOVE: Greta Garbo's 1935 turn as Anna Karenina was faithful to Leo Tolstoy: Anna indeed ends her life under the wheels of a passing passenger train. But in 1927 she appeared in a silent-movie adaptation, which, in one version, concluded with Anna reunited with her lover Vronsky after the convenient death of her husband...
Douglas Day Stewart's script has little use for the novel's other plot line: Hester's difficulty with her love child Pearl. But this Hester is readier to be martyr and lover than seamstress and mother. She is, you see, America's prototype feminist. (Caucasian feminist, that is--Pocahontas, in the Disney cartoon, beat Hester to the p.c. punch.) And the Rev, weak in the novel, is now a fiery film hero, deserving of the preposterous happy ending the filmmakers tack...
...acting, too, helps to disguise the plot Demi Moore plays her part with a determination and recklessness that would have done Hester Prynne proud. Gary Oldman would cut a more convincing figure as her passionate and inspirational lover, the Reverend Dimmesdale, if he weren't undercut by the melodramatic sermonizng thrust upon him by the script. And Robert Duvall steals the show as Demi's estranged pay chopathic husband, who has gone so native that the natives themselves decide they're scared...
...Prehn, who had championed the plan. "I received phone messages telling me that I would get a bullet in my head and that my child would never reach the first grade," said Prehn, a dentist. He says eight white families stormed into his office, denounced him as a "Hmong lover" and took their business elsewhere. Under threat of a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union, the new board conceived a plan for racial balance in the schools by redefining the boundaries of some neighborhoods. And while the busing continues, it is now mostly Hmong children who travel to other...